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ATON Transfers

The Transfer Positions screen lets you transfer US or Canadian stocks, options and cash held at another brokerage firm to us through Account Transfer on Notification (ATON), the Canadian equivalent of ACATS.

When you select ACATS as the transfer method on the Transfer Positions page, you can:

• Enter an ATON transfer, in which all of your assets are transferred from a third-party broker to your account.
• Save new broker information, which lets you save and reuse third-party broker information for future ATON transfers.

Your Account Name, Tax Identification Number and Customer Type (i.e. individual, joint, Roth IRA), must exactly match the third-party broker account in order for the transfer to take place.

About Saved Broker Information

If you want to use your third-party broker for an ATON transfer AND save it in our system for future use, you must complete two tasks:

1. Initiate a new ATON transfer, but choose to save the new broker information. No transfer is performed in this step.
2. Initiate a new ATON transfer using the saved broker information. This is where you select the assets to transfer.

Note: You cannot simultaneously save new broker information and perform a transfer. The transfer must either be performed without saving the broker information, or the transfer must be performed after the broker information is saved.

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